Operation: Give 14 pals $1 mil each

George Clooney practically had to pull off his own “Ocean’s Eleven”style heist to give 14 friends a special present: $1 million in cash.

The Oscar winner confirmed a long-whispered story about handing out $14 million to a group of friends, fondly called “The Boys,” to thank them for sticking by him as his career got off the ground, but the story of how he pulled it off is even better.

After “Gravity,” the 2013 sci-fi movie that made more than $720 million at the box office, Clooney had some extra money in the bank.

“I thought, what I do have are these guys who’ve all, over a period of 35 years, helped me in one way or another,” he told GQ.

“I’ve slept on their couches when I was broke. They loaned me money when I was broke. They helped me when I needed help over the years. And I’ve helped them over the years. We’re all good friends. And I thought, you know, without them I don’t have any of this. And we’re all really close, and I just thought basically if I get hit by a bus, they’re all in the will. So why the f—k am I waiting to get hit by a bus?”

But instead of a watch, or even a check, Clooney wanted to do it in the most dramatic way imaginable: a bunch of $20 bills.

So he found a business in downtown Los Angeles with “giant pallets of cash,” drove a beat-up florist’s van to the secret location and took the van down an elevator into a mysterious vault.

“And we brought it up, and I bought 14 Tumi bags, and then I packed in a million bucks, cash, which isn’t as much as you think it is, weight-wise, into these Tumi bags,” he told GQ.

The next day, he invited the friends over and showed them a map of “all the places I got to go in the world and all the things I’ve gotten to see because of them.”

“How do you repay people like that?’” Clooney told GQ. “And I said, ‘Oh, well: How about a million bucks?’”

The philanthropist, who married wife Amal exactly a year later, didn’t name the roster of lucky friends, but entrepreneur Rande Gerber previously outed the secret to MSNBC’s “Headliners” in 2017.